A few months ago, Your Humble Blogger repeated the intention to examine The Declaration of Independence, and there was some interest from Gentle Readers, so perhaps we should look at it together over the next couple of weeks. Before we…
Well, and Your Humble Blogger has finished watching the television adaptation of Angels in America. I thought we could go over it a little, because I’m still struggling. First of all, I think the play is one of the greatest…
One of the things that YHB finds interesting about rereading novels is seeing what sticks in the old memory, and particularly what errors creep in. Before I reread Beauty, I would have said that the point of the book was…
Well, and once again Your Humble Blogger has failed to be awarded the Ig Nobel prize for literature, or anything else for that matter. I am glad that they recognized the works of the Nigerian fantasists, who speak to something…
Gentle Readers, you have probably seen this quoted elsewhere this week, but I would be remiss in my blogduties if I did not pass along Federalist 76, on The Appointing Power of the Executive. “It has been observed,” says Publius,…
OK, and here’s the weird thing about recording all the books Your Humble Blogger reads. Somehow, it had got into my mind that the Sara Paretsky books had been getting steadily worse and worse, and that the last had been…
Your Humble Blogger happened to get lucky and find a copy of Anansi Boys at the local library, well, the next-library-over-from-local, so I didn’t have to decide whether I wanted to buy it in hardback or not. And I’m glad,…
Well, and it’s State of the Blog time again. Since the last time I totted up the notes, I had the big move in July (17 notes) and August (26 notes), and then bounced up a bit higher than normal…
Apropos of nothing at all, if a President of the United States had committed crimes, possibly impeachable crimes, possibly not impeachable, and was perhaps under grand jury investigation, and had siphoned off the nation’s treasure into the pockets of cronies,…
What the hell is the matter with people? I’m all in favor of a World Government (it can’t be much worse than World Anarchy), but Bill Gates in the starting XI? Richard Branson? And I yield to no-one in my…